Blog from another Software Engineer

Sergi's Blog

I'm just a SWE passionate about technology and entrepreneurship.

A local terminal sends authenticated requests through a central proxy to 3 AI model services
AI & AgentsAIAI ModelsDockerOpen Source

You already pay for the models: connect your agents without another API bill

A practical guide to exposing the model allowance included with ChatGPT, Claude, and other supported accounts through 1 local API, followed by a secure Docker setup.

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Decision map showing 4 paths from documents, relationships, structured data, and a small set of documents to a grounded answer
AI & AgentsAIRAGGraphRAGArchitecture

RAG, GraphRAG, or something else: choosing without overbuilding

RAG does not always need a graph, and not every question needs RAG. A practical guide to choosing based on the data, the questions, and the cost we can afford.

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Hand-drawn research agent combining recent signals from discussions, code, video, charts, and news into 1 report beneath a 30-day calendar
AI & AgentsAIAI AgentsResearchOpen Source

A better way to catch up: using the last30days skill

An agent skill that looks beyond the usual search results and turns scattered recent signals into a useful research brief.

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Hand-drawn browser window with a compact local model routing a sentence to positive, neutral, and negative indicators while disconnected from the cloud
AI & Machine LearningAIMachine LearningWeb AIPrivacy

Small models in the browser: sentiment analysis without a server

A practical experiment in running a compact text classifier locally in the browser to label a sentence as positive, neutral, or negative.

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Arliax Nexus terminal dashboard monitoring live market data from multiple crypto exchanges
Fintech & TradingOpen SourceCryptoTrading BotsTypeScript

Arliax Nexus and Bot: a crypto trading experiment

A holiday project that grew into a real-time market-data aggregator and trading bot - and why I have decided to stop trading it.

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Pixel art illustration for Godot Card FX Lab, showing a fantasy landscape with castles, swords, and card-game items
Game DevelopmentGodotShadersVisual EffectsAI

Godot Card FX Lab: a weekend shader experiment with AI

A small Godot lab for exploring visual card and booster-pack effects, built out of curiosity using AI.

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Unobserved game prototype showing a spaceship near a colonized planet, enemies, and a vortex
Game DevelopmentGodotIndie GamesGame DesignSide Projects

Unobserved: a side project to experiment with game development

I have always been fascinated by game development. Unobserved is my way of exploring it without turning it into a profession.

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Sony MSX HB-10P computer connected to a television and cassette recorder
Career & PersonalCareerComputing HistoryEntrepreneurshipFintech

Hello world (v2)

New blog. From MSX machines and dial-up modems to fintech and AI: the path from wanting to be a hacker to building products and teams.

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